Hello you lovely (and patient!) folks! Here are a couple of rough sample pages produced for the pitch, with full dialogue and everything! Lucia and her friend Nat are in a train car when it suddenly comes under attack by a supervillain. Fortunately, Chrysalis and Boltslinger of the Starlights are on hand to save the day!

Hey, what’s up! Here’s another little short comic.

Poor Boltslinger, first we didn’t have the space for him in our first 15-page short, and now his thunder is stolen away by Blue Streak and Spark.

Thanks so much! The Starlights actually have one male hero—he’s the futuristic-looking cowboy in the short comic’s cover image. We didn’t have space to put him in the short comic (we already had plenty of characters!), but he’s the fifth member of the team: Boltslinger!

We specifically didn’t want the Starlights to be only women. Making the Starlights an all-female team might seem like a form of self-segregation, or, worse, a gimmick (“these ladies can fight just as well as any man!”). They’re not trying to prove anything, nor are they reacting to sexism in their field. Rather than being a deliberate challenge to other superhero teams that don’t have any women, they’re just a team that happens to have mostly women. If that makes sense.